[music] 0:00:00.589,0:00:03.629 hi my name is Wendy Wei and I recently 0:00:03.629,0:00:05.460 graduated as a human development major 0:00:05.460,0:00:07.830 i'm currently at cornell continuing a 0:00:07.830,0:00:09.269 project called the spatial language 0:00:09.269,0:00:12.660 project under professor Casasola and we 0:00:12.660,0:00:14.370 go out to the daycares and work with 0:00:14.370,0:00:16.230 these children and we examine how 0:00:16.230,0:00:18.600 language and play affect children 0:00:18.600,0:00:21.270 spatial skills. for instance in this task 0:00:21.270,0:00:24.330 we asked children to match which one of 0:00:24.330,0:00:26.099 these shapes these two pieces would make 0:00:26.099,0:00:28.859 if they put them together and 0:00:28.859,0:00:31.189 I am human ecology